Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-11-08

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Dssia LASER hna bean ne owner Of 9
Iarng foundry e OoEbondAis, Rsnnsyl-
vsnia, anR a1ain "a Pil1slon, Rsnggyi-
ssnia. whsn e vent 20 Rashtaae, Wis
ssnsIn. Is iarRs are esslEogs1 bis rfep-
ersg fhere and oompoiIed hin SD his
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N. B. Onasn. 9 large stoukhnEdaE A
fha NnFlheFn Paoi0e Railroad, had 1nsl
cons fnum surveying the eonntEy 10 ne
exarama wazi end advised MF. Lister 20
eoxas % the puQst E0and diztxtsk AfteE
snnne 6afihsrati1n be ooneludee 20 act
upcn aha advice and wns theEefnke one
81 TIE paassnGeRB On t1e Steamship
On KEs ErEsT IMP
from San Rfsnclsso 70 Ne Sound. Re
wsnt % Tacoma aad worked fek Eear
Is he pIausF 81 NE T1soma MI. HE
famsly eozne oal to moutha akieE a!
arrival nnd 10 1913. hs vita 1snslaa
euraRna located the SHE Of The f0uHdfy.
81 had an uphiIl JOB o. e whils he wns
Rsifing things RoinR. he eaianslsnea
auA he dock which be operated hlm8elf
% transport the fey castings 2, sa1e
for the mill and boata. Nj. Ld8lere
/ errf lavarfrsaut IN Taeoma real estate
vas ne pnfchnse d the hnu1e ID uhian
Job Carr, he pioneer lived. and The lot
/ Il stood UPON. When be built bis shop
&c zee "a q sns beg zee ~ Z ~, w
inc Vs. made % March II, 1873. When
the Northern Pacific began building ~
western aIvIsion, Sc was given their
work and he never kept than waiting
4 beyond tha time prescribed In any In
atanes. he ala al the work fer She
KalaHa division and the shop from the
beRinnina az that work began 10 spread
out until Il became the largest casting
door on the Pacific coast, running from
twelve 20 twenty ton4 He drew hil
iFcn from the OsWeeo works az San
Fmneisoo and when they could nol
guarantee 70 supply him with the needed
oApKRKp A SHIP LOAD
FFom Liverpool. Ths works gradually
developed into steamboat and engine
baildina and Che number Ia the last en
CINE turned out which pEopels the
ekaQit Chief IL "61,n That nnmbeF
manufaetufed since '73. Lister claims
the credit Of making the hrBt compound,
high and loB pressure engine that vas
ever built for Q stern wheel boat aud
which proved q success. That engine
IVES built fer and now runs The Clara
Brown. Tbs atiempt haa been made
ID San Francisco and Portland bat they
failed. Daring fifteen months while
the Kalama road vas being built The
pay roll az the works amounted 70 5000
per month, and u vas These works that
rave 70 New Tacoma its earliest boom.
The firms name Was Lister, HouRhton h
Company, the company being General
SpFaRue from 1881 to 1884. IL the lat
Ter year she firm dissolved, and has
since baen David Lister alone.
"It vas probably the most desolate
looking place % earth when / arrived
hers" said Dir. Lister reviving bis early
memories yesterday. The hEsa year e
nAmKD sEyHE MONTHS
With only fourteen bright daya In that
time. Il was enough 20 discourage any
body, and my wife would have Rigen
anything 20 get back east; bat the eli
mate, like the surroundings, which
we're than Q wilderness, Il changing
every year. II Was In 1873, think,
thaa Theodore Hoemef, s. ~. Nolan,
samuel Wilkeson, JF., and myself e.
feoted an ogaAuIzRtion and were chosen
20 form the executive board for the
town Of New Tacoma. ] was chosen
president We hsld Office for twe
terms. and az The second eleeaion TO
eeived every vote cast. The popula-
ti0n Of the town was about 400 ct THAI
time. Ia 1881 the Legislature granted
a. city charter and ] vas appointed
20 serve Is mayor from November until
the election ordered The following
lMay.n
abaring that interim occurred the
great smallpox epidemic and scare.
continued Mt. Lister. I'VE had thirty
two easea Of the diaoasa and three o.
four deaths before We knew what Il
ives. Dr.. Wing, 0nA Of the several
phvalosans wo bad here, vas the only
one thna pronounced u smallpox. The
others
SAID II Was MRAaLxs.
Iwent for DR.. Smith at Seattle and
be came up aud visited every enc Of
them, refusing 30 allow ne % acsom-
pany him, saying that ID eass Il vas
suallpsx they wsuld want ne for ether
purposes. 10 the evening be visited me
and raported THAI exery case Be had via
tied. and be had visited ell Of them,
was smallpox, and advised me 10 enter
upon q general quAranfina. I did So
eleeed 90 every house; thosa whs we're
To had 10 stay in and no others we're
admitted. except the doetors. SEINE Of
The doctors ned the town % Get away
from L. bat " sfieolually coFrallad Z.
TIE epl6emio lasted about four nantha.
duslne yeieh there we're siaht Of ten
dnathaH
Mr. Lister says be proposes 10 take Z
seraon Of several months Of eomplsaa
rest when be finally reairea from kha
enterprise with which be has been 40
long identifsd, bal WHISTLER he win en-
barb In business again or not be does
not state.
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